The computer-officiated wedding won’t be legally binding. Hanson and Wesley still have to get a justice of the peace to sign their paperwork to make the marriage official. They plan to do that shortly after the ceremony.

“We’re both friends of the computer. So it’s kind of like our best friend is still marrying us,” Wesley said. “The computer is a huge part of our lives, so why not be a huge part of this?”

The story does not mention whether Hanson and Wesley are people of faith. I wish it had. In the video, after Wesley reads her vows from an iPhone in a hot pink case, she says, “We’re not a traditional couple; we’re kind of tech-y, we’re kind of geeky.”

Perhaps this is the rise of the Church of the Geek?

Clearly technology means a lot to this pair, and over the past several decades computers and the Internet have been able to assume roles that were traditionally held by the church. I discussed this phenomenon in a post featuring the viral video “The Internet is My Religion.”

But is the Internet replacing people’s once-religious experiences or supplementing them? I’m not sure. When it comes to getting hitched, church weddings have declined 60 percent among Roman Catholics in the U.S. over the past 40 years, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, and anecdotally, more people are having ordained-online friends perform the ceremony.